22 y.o. Nigerian Writer Making $6,000/month

A warm welcome to our 49 new subscribers.

You’ve joined at an exciting time. Everything is changing. Here’s what’s in today’s email:

• Our new format experiment

• Community Shoutout: Nginda Naganga

• How Much Do Affiliate Marketers Make?

• How to build a $1,000 mo niche site in 5 hours.

• From Laid Off to 6-Figure VA in 2 Years

• 13 AI Tools to Hack Your Marketing

• 22 y.o. Nigerian Writer Making $6,000/month

• Last-minute remote job!

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Our New Format(s)

Before April this year, I had never sent a single newsletter or marketing email.

I’m an SEO and long-form content guy.

So, I started Business Builders Africa as an experiment and an opportunity to learn something new.

It was only meant to be a bi-weekly job list for aspiring freelancers and remote workers in Africa. Our first email had 2 jobs. Our most recent recent had 159!

The newsletter content has also ballooned, morphing into something resembling a trade mag for African marketers.

Our weekly Monday emails are now too big for Gmail.

So. I’m experimenting with a new format.

The Monday email will be solely a weekly job list. We may also cut it down to just marketing jobs.

We’ll also be shifting focus to more blog content and deep dives. These will include:

• A new occasional Friday email will contain 5 quick links and pieces of content to help you grow your online business.

  Interviews with, and case studies of, successful bootstrapped African online businesses

• A course hub with everything you need to learn online business skills

• Honest reviews of tools, paid communities, etc.

• How-to guides for online businesses and career paths.

• Much more…

So, stick with us while we figure out the new format, and I promise you’ll be rewarded.

📣 Community Shoutout

Congrats to Nginda Nganga, who has been nominated for the Tech Influencer of the Year Award by Pulselive Kenya! 🎉🎉🎉

Vote for Nginda

Nginda is a dedicated marketer, developer, and passionate advocate for the remote work culture. They generously share open remote job opportunities and valuable resources on their blog and on their TikTok profile.

In addition to their advocacy, Nginda is a co-founder of ToffeeTribe, a startup offering flexible workspaces, meetups, and workations tailored for remote workers across Africa.

Want to be featured in this section? Share this email with your friends, colleagues, or audience (your referral link is at the bottom of the email 👇🏻), and we’ll include you in a future issue of the newsletter.

💡Business Building Tips

How Much Do Affiliate Marketers Make?

Authority Hacker surveyed 2,270 affiliate marketers and got a tonne of valuable answers.

Survey participants’ experience ranged from less than one year to more than 10, and included their niche, revenue, and optimism levels for the industry’s future.

The results are packed with valuable data to help you understand affiliate marketing and its potential for making money online.

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How to Build a $1,000/month Niche Site in 5 Hours

Jon Dykstra from the Fatstacks blog outlines a simple 6-step process to build your first niche site, and the tools you’ll need – including AI.

It’s not as hype-y as it sounds from the title, and Jon knows what he’s talking about.

He makes $50k+ per month from a portfolio of simple niche sites.

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👩🏽‍💻 Career Resources

From Laid Off to $100k/year VA Agency in 2 Years

ebiz Facts profiles Lianamar Dávila, who was unexpectedly laid off from her job in 2020, and quickly pivoted to becoming a virtual assistant.

She started by taking Esther Inman’s 90 Day VA course and found her first client in 3 months.

Skip ahead 2 years, and Lianamar is running a 7-person VA agency, Lidavi Social, that makes over $100,000 a year from 9 clients.

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🤖 This Week in AI

13 AI Tools For Marketing Teams

Olivia Milton lists the tools her team uses to automate marketing, speed up output, and boost ROI.

My favorites (which I’m currently testing, too):

• SuperMEME.AI – Generate awesome memes and appear funnier than you are.

• Byword.AI – Quickly create “Minimum Viable Content“ for your blog.

• AdCreative.AI – Access a massive database of high-converting ad examples to inspire your campaigns.

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22 y.o. Nigerian Writer Making $6,000/month

John Iwuozor is 22 years old, lives in Nigeria, and is on track to make $100,000 as a freelance writer in 2023.

John started writing as a hobby while in school, but pivoted to freelancing during the pandemic to make some extra income.

He’s completely self-taught and now provides writing and content strategy services to large cybersecurity and SAAS companies.

We interviewed him to learn how you can:

• Use your hobbies to find your first clients

• Find high-paying B2B niches and clients

• Leverage AI to improve your writing

• Pick the best courses to upskill and charge even more

🎯 Remote Jobs This Week

That’s all for this week!

Thanks,

Conor